Hermione sat on her bed her face all puffy and pink. Fred saw this as a joke. A big joke. Just like her. She just wanted to curl up and sleep, but it was the afternoon. She wished Ginny would come back already. She'd been at the Ministry for hours. They were probably out celebrating. She needed someone to talk to, but her only friends were out getting engaged. There was Ron. He wouldn't understand. Then again, someone to talk to would be nice. She could go out and talk to Ron. But, she didn't want to risk having to talk to Fred.

"Mione?" She could tell it was one of the twins.

"Who is it?" she said through the door

"Fred…hey listen, I'm sorry about before….ya know…being such a wanker."

Hermione lips began to form a smile, but she couldn't talk to him/ now. Her face was all blotchy and pink. Her nose kept twitching every time she thought of what he had said before.

"Really Fred, I don't want to talk."

"Is it me? Do you want to talk to someone?"

"….Are Ginny and Harry back?"

"No…"

"Can I just have some time?"

She sat there for a second waiting to hear Fred's footsteps, or at least something. She heard nothing. She walked to the door, and opened it up a crack. Fred was still there. She looked down at the ground as Fred opened the door a little more. Hermione stepped back and sat on her bed, and Fred stepped in sitting next to her.

"Hermione…"

"Fred, I can't do this. I can't do this if you think it's all a joke. It's not fair to-" Fred grabbed her shoulders and looked very seriously into her eyes

"A joke? This isn't a joke. Do I have to apologize again? I'm sorry for doing that. I didn't know what else to do. But this defiantly isn't a joke."

Hermione stared at him for a moment. Her face softened. She wiped her eyes. It was amazing. This jokester was finally taking something serious. Fred pulled her into hug. She rested her head on his shoulder, the side of her face against his silky soft hair. She smelt his neck, feeling slightly odd doing this. It smelt like smoke mixed with some brand name of soap. But it smelled very, very nice. And his hair had a very alluring scent to it.

"Hermione?" Fred questioned

"Yes?" She asked still leaning her head on his shoulder

"Are you sniffing me?" Hermione leant away from his shoulder and looked down at the floor

"Possibly…"

"Why in Merlin's beard would you be sniffing me Granger?"

"Well…you do smell rather nice…"

"I do?" Fred asked with a slight sense of pride "What do I smell like?" He said slightly softer, sliding ever so slightly closer to Hermione

"Like soap," Hermione said. Fred scoffed at her.

"Soap?" He said, suddenly realizing that they had both been leaning in with every word they were saying.

"And smoke. And something else….." That's when she realized as well

"What's that something else?" They were really close, and were speaking quite soft

"I don't really know," Hermione was focused in on his lips. They looked soft. She wondered if they were. Soft lips that is. She leaned in the final bit so that they were only centimeters away. "But, it makes me feel…"

And that's when Fred kissed her. Softly on the lips, for no more then 4, maybe 5 seconds. It was more than a peck, that was for sure, but what it was exactly, neither was sure. It wasn't passionate or anything. Hermione began to feel something when Fred pulled away, and turned from her staring at the wall.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have done that." Fred scratched his neck thinking of something else to say.

"…safe" She finished.

"What?"

"The smell of your neck that I don't know. It makes me feel safe." Hermione said, looking at Fred as he turned his head to her and smiled. He was going to say something until Harry and Ginny burst through the door laughing and kissing. There was a lot of kissing. So much, that they didn't notice the other two the room. So, Hermione and Fred got up as slowly as they could, and crept out of the room closing the door. They stood in the hall silent for a while.

"It's really not great to see your little sister snogging with someone." Fred spoke up breaking the silence.

"Doubt I would be." Hermione said, then walked down to the living room leaving a slightly confused Fred behind her.